Noise Levels in Clubview Heights, AL | Find Quiet Neighborhoods With Our Sound Map
58 dBA
Average noise across Clubview Heights
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
116
Residents above the EPA 55 dBA threshold
25% of Clubview Heights residents
75 dBA
Loudest residential point
City bus interior
This map shows modeled outdoor noise across Clubview Heights at 100-meter resolution, combining road, aviation, and rail sources. Green areas measure below 45 dBA. Orange and red exceed the EPA's 55 dBA outdoor threshold linked to long-term health effects. Use the layer toggles to view each source on its own or all together.
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What the numbers sound like
30 dBAWhisper
40 dBASoft rainfall
45 dBAQuiet suburban street at night
50 dBAQuiet office
55 dBAEPA outdoor threshold: light traffic 100 ft away
60 dBANormal conversation an arm's length away
65 dBABusy restaurant
70 dBAHighway traffic 50 ft away
80 dBACity bus interior
Population Above the EPA Outdoor Threshold
The EPA's 55 dBA outdoor reference level is a common benchmark for residential noise exposure, especially for activity interference, annoyance, and long-term community noise concerns. About 116 Clubview Heights residents, or 25.3%, live above that level. By land area, 38.1% of Clubview Heights is above 55 dBA.
Average noise levels for Clubview Heights residents, grouped by direction from the center of Clubview Heights. Northern Clubview Heights carries the highest population-weighted average; Southern Clubview Heights carries the lowest. Just 1% of residents in Southern Clubview Heights live in blocks above the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, a fifth of the share in Northern Clubview Heights.
Eastern Clubview Heights
47.8 dBA · Mostly quiet
Quiet office
3% of people above 55 dBA
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Northern Clubview Heights
62.7 dBA · Loud
Busy restaurant
36% of people above 55 dBA
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Southern Clubview Heights
45.5 dBA · Mostly quiet
Quiet suburban street at night
1% of people above 55 dBA
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Northern Clubview Heights sounds about 229% louder than Southern Clubview Heights to the human ear, a 17.2 dBA gap. Every 10 dBA roughly doubles perceived loudness. Within any of these directions, two homes a quarter mile apart can still differ by 10 or more dBA depending on how close they sit to a major highway.
How far back from I-759 do you need to be?
I-759 produces an estimated 71 dBA at its loudest centerline points. Noise drops logarithmically with distance, with the exact rate depending on what's between you and the road. Tree cover, walls, terrain, and pavement type all matter. At roughly a quarter mile back, traffic fades into the noise level of a soft rainfall.
At source
71 dBA
Highway traffic 50 ft away
165 ft
59 dBA
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
330 ft
52 dBA
Quiet office to normal conversation
660 ft
45 dBA
Quiet suburban street at night
¼ mile
37 dBA
Soft rainfall
½ mile
35 dBA
Soft rainfall
Calculated from the model's calibrated attenuation formula. About 48% of Clubview Heights sits under tree canopy (heavier than most cities) and roughly 14% is impervious surface like pavement and rooftops. Both are folded into the per-place decay rate above. Heavier canopy pulls noise down faster with distance; impervious surfaces slow the drop.
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How Noise Is Distributed Across Clubview Heights
The bar chart below shows the share of Clubview Heights residents in each noise band. About 30% of residents live below the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, and roughly 57% live in blocks above 60 dBA. Long-term exposure in that range is linked to elevated stress hormones and cardiovascular risk.
How Clubview Heights Compares
Clubview Heights sits the highest among the peer group. Below: how Clubview Heights's average outdoor noise and share of residents above the EPA threshold compare with Reece City, Keener, Knightens Crossroads, and Egypt.
Average noise level (dBA)
Clubview Heights's 57.6 dBA pop-weighted average is the highest among the peer group. Alabama as a whole averages 49.0 dBA and the U.S. averages 52.0 dBA. Both are lower than Clubview Heights because most of either area is rural land away from major roads.
Share of residents above 55 dBA
About 25.3% of Clubview Heights residents live in blocks where outdoor levels exceed the EPA's 55 dBA threshold. That's more than any of its peer group. Measured by land area instead, 38.1% of Clubview Heights's footprint sits above 55 dBA, against a Alabama average of 20.0% and a national average of 28.1%.
What This Means if You're Moving to Clubview Heights
Distance from highways matters more than the neighborhood name. Two homes in the same zip code can differ by 20 dBA if one sits 100 meters from I-759 and the other 500 meters away. The model captures this at 100-meter resolution, so noise exposure changes block by block.
Tree canopy can help reduce modeled noise exposure. Roughly 48% of Clubview Heights is under tree cover (heavier than most cities), and the dominant land cover is low-density developed open space. Both are measured from federal USDA Forest Service and USGS satellite imagery at 30-meter resolution. Streets with 60% or higher canopy show 3 to 5 dBA lower noise than comparable streets with bare ground or pavement, which is why the per-place decay rate above already accounts for it.
Sources & Methodology
The BestNeighborhood noise model is calibrated against nearly one million federal ground-truth measurements across four states. Road noise is computed from segment-level federal traffic data and propagated outward using physics-based acoustic decay, with attenuation rates that depend on the surrounding land cover.
All inputs are published federal datasets. Block-level noise is computed by combining road, rail, and aviation sound sources in the energy domain, the same physics used in professional environmental noise assessments. Read the full methodology.
